Word: summone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Security Council invite Mao Tse-tung's government to send representatives to the forthcoming U.N. discussion of General MacArthur's report on Chinese intervention in Korea (TIME, Nov. 13). U.S. Delegate Warren Austin argued that since Communist China was the aggressor the invitation should be called a "summons." Snapped Russia's Jacob Malik: "When a colonial power speaks to a colonial slave it may 'summon' . . . him, but in the present case the term should be 'to invite...
...embarrassment what had happened. The bill was intended to establish a uniform motor vehicle code, and to wipe out all the empowering clauses of all existing motor vehicle statutes. By a sloppy bit of writing, it also wiped out all powers of cities and towns. Pastore said he would summon a special session before November (when the new law is scheduled to go into effect) to draft a new bill. Presumably this one would be read carefully first...
Only a joint session of Parliament could summon the King home, but Premier-designate Van Zeeland first had to form a government and present it to the separate chambers for votes of confidence. In two weeks of trying, he has had no success. The next step would be "clarifications" of the King's message. This might take weeks, and might not produce any agreement on what the King had promised...
When he finally got around to putting the orchestra through Falstaff early last week, he found the orchestral parts full of wrong notes. Stopping the music, he would summon flutists and violists to the podium, hold the offending scores up to his nose so he could read them, then mock the publisher ("Viva la casa Ricordi...
...they sit on chairs level with himself. Since shyness is a Siamese characteristic, the visitors often found themselves unable to talk in such a presumptuous position; King and subject would sit in silence, both blushing. Siamese tell of Ananda's visits to little villages near Bangkok. He would summon up all his courage, walk up to an old woman and ask, "Grandmother, how go things with you?" The woman would probably burst.into tears at the thought that she had been addressed by a King, and Ananda would stand before her, eyes downcast and silent...